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<p>This CD-ROM has been built on <b> October 22, 2001</b>.</p>
        <p>&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="justify"><a href="http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/index.html">Alliance</a> is a
        complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design.
        It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and
        automatic place and route tools. A complete set of portable CMOS
        libraries is provided, including a RAM generator, a ROM generator and a
        data-path compiler. Alliance is the result of a ten year effort spent at
        <a href="http://asim.lip6.fr/">ASIM</a> department of <a href="http://www.lip6.fr/">LIP6</a>
        laboratory of the <a href="http://www.admp6.jussieu.fr/">Pierre et Marie
        Curie University</a> (Paris VI, France).</p>
        <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="justify">This CD-ROM contains a local copy of the <a href="www/alliance/index.html">Alliance Web
                site</a> (<a
                href="http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/">http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/</a>)
and nearly all the <a href="ftp/">Alliance ftp
                site</a> (<a
                href="ftp://asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/">ftp://asim.lip6.fr/pub/alliance/</a>).&nbsp;</p>
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The
latest official release is <b>4.0.6</b>. 
If 
        you want to install it, please go
        to the <a href="ftp/distribution/4.0/">official distribution</a> folder and
        read the <a href="ftp/distribution/4.0/README">README</a> file, but you might be interested in latest builds
that are located in <a href="ftp/unstable/distribution/">unstable distribution</a>.&nbsp;You
can also look at the <a href="ftp/unstable/development">development snapshot</a> of our installation at LIP6 where you can find some more tools which are not part of the unstable distribution.
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You can browse the complete Alliance's documentation from <a href="www/alliance/index.html">here</a>
(follow the links <a href="www/alliance/distrib/index.html">Distribution</a> and
<a href="www/alliance/doc/index.html">Documentation</a>). This complete
documentation is also available in <a href="Alliance%20Web%20Site.chm">chm</a>
format (one big file).&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
        <p align="justify">To
        ask for some support about Alliance, please mail to : <a
        href="mailto:alliance-users@asim.lip6.fr">alliance-support@asim.lip6.fr</a>. To be
        aware of the latest changes in Alliance you should take a
        look to <a
        href="mailto:alliance-programmers@asim.lip6.fr">alliance-programmers@asim.lip6.fr</a> mailing
        list. These mailing lists are archived at <a
        href="http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/mailing-lists/index.html">http://asim.lip6.fr/alliance/mailing-lists/index.html</a>.</p>
        <p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#FF0000">Please note that documentation and tutorials might not be up to
date. Known problems are :</font></p>
<ul>
  <li>
    <p align="justify">yagle and tas are not part of Alliance anymore, but are
now available from <a href="http://www.avertec.com/download.html">Avertec</a>
for free for members of academic institutions.</li>
  <li>
    <p align="justify">Some man pages in html found at <a href="www/alliance/doc/man/alliance_tools.1.html">alliance\doc\man\</a>
    are wrong, please refer to the real manpages (&gt; man lynx)</li>
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<p>Thanks for using Alliance!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right"><i>The Alliance Support team.</i></p>
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